Pastetjbizijig apparates



J. H. BEGKMAN.

PASTEURIZING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.28,1912.

Patented June 2, 19%

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JACOB H. BECKMAN, OI SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

PASTEURIZING APPARATUS.

1,098,551. Specifimfim of letters Patent Patented June 2, 1914. Application filedFebruary 28, 1912. Serial No. 680,534.

T a all whom it may concern: 18, thereby providing a continuous conduit Be itknown that I, J acon H. Brennan, a between legs 10 and 15. citizen of the United States of America, and Reference numeral 4 indicates a conveyer a mident of the city of Seattle, in the county comprising spaced endless chains having a 5 of King and State of Washington, have m portion of their lengths guided by direction 50 vented certain new and useful Improvements wheels 1 and 9- in tanks 7, 8 and 9. Extein Pus'teurizing -\l.l 1)paratus of which the n orl v of these tanks said conveyor takes over following is a cation. direction wheels 3 journaled in suitable My invention relates to improvements m stands 5 of main supporting frame 6, dip apparatus particularly adaptedfor pasteurrectly over the legs 10 and 15. a5 izing or sterilizing beer and other hquld Reference numeral indicates a delivery products which are to be preserved in bottles chute arranged above leg 15 at the upwardly cans or other form of receptacles, whereby movin side of conveyer' 4 and extending to such products may be sub ected to succelve an en es conveyer 21, through the medlum 15 baths of difierent temperature, and has for of which latter the heated receptacles can be 70 I one of its objects to rovide apparatus of removed to any desired point, as is well unthis character in wluc the products can be derstood, uniformly treated. 1 Above leg 10 I provide a feeding platform Afurther objectresldes 1n the provlston of 30, at the forward end of which is an ad- :0 novel holding devices for the receptacles or justable section 31 which in the operation 75 bottles which are operated to cause the fluid of the machine is adapted to be adjusted to to be agitated or to flow lengthwise of the an inclined position, as shown in Fig. 4, so les. that the bottles can slide down the same by A. further object resides in the provision vity into the holders 32 on conveyer 4. of mechanism conveying and operating the Platform section 31 is pivoted in a bracket so receptacle holders in a novel manner. extension 33 of platform and rovided Referring to the accompanying drawings, with a handle 34 with which it can raised wherein I have illustrated my apparatus or low y adapted particularly for treating beer: Flg- Holders 32 which are cylindrical in form 80 ure 1 is a view of m'v invention in side elevoand perforated so that the water can have 85 tion with rtlons broken away. 2 15 free accws to the contained bottles, are prrr a view of t e same in end elevation W1; porvided with longitudinal seats 85 whose intions broken away. Fig. 3 is a horizontal ner end portions are contracted and comsection on line 3-3 of Fig. 1, parts being municate with a hollow hub part 86.

35 broken away. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sec- Holders 32 are rotatably mounted in per- 90! tion illustrating one of the holders in conforated cylindrical sup rts 37, the same junction with the feeding device, and Fig. having shafts 38 jonrna ed in and project- 5 is a detail of the holder partly m lon ing through the end walls of the latter and tudinal sectlom. provided with sprocket wheels 89, adapted Referring to the drawings by numerals for engagement with sprocket chains 40. 9!!

of reference 7 B and 9 indicate attemperat- Reference numeral 41 indicates lugs roing, paste nnd 0001135 tanks respecvided on supports 37 and apertured to tiv ,the same mg adap to hold water loosely receive rods 42, which rods extend a a equip Wlth well known mechbetween and are connected in a suitable man- 45 anism as shown in Patent No. 701,622 for nor with the spaced component chains of 10 creating and mainta' or such fluid at the conveys: desired temperatureto e ect the heating of Chains 40 are guided, as by direction the products to be treated withc. subsequent sheaves 43, within tanks 7, 8 and 9 at the side coolmg thereof, rior to their delivery from of the path of conveyor 4 for engagement 1 tank 9, in 1:13: ual manner. These tanks with sprocket wheels 39 of holders 32 to It are y u shaped, the several legs rotate the latter and thereby so agitate the being daignated'hy the numerals 10, 11, contents of the bottle as to obtain a more 13, It and 15 respectively. The opposite uniform and thorough subjection thereof to legs of adjacent tanks are connected at their the submerging medium or agent. From upper end portions by closed sections 17 and legs 10 and 15 chains 40 extend upwardly to 12 remain in engagement with sprocket wheels 39 during feeding and delivering operations,

and thence being guided by wheels 44 out of the path of conveyer 4 so that the holders when empty or during their travel between wheels 3, will remain idle.

Each support 37, at a pointnear its upper portion, is provided with a longitudinal opening 50 which is normally closed by a door 51 adapted to slide in a circumferential direction in guides 52 thereof. On the opposite side of the support and at the lower portion thereof, another opening, as 53. is provided, this opening being provided with a slidable door 54 held by guides 55 in identically the same manner as the door 51.

One of the direction wheels 44 for chains 40 is provided on its shaft with a pulley 56 which is driven continuously by a belt 57 taking over a fast pulley 58 on the shaft 59 of a suitable motor 60. Motion is commu nicated to conveyer 4 by a belt 61 taking over a loose pulley 62 of shaft 59, and over a pulley 63 fixed to the shaft of one of the direction wheels 2. Loose pulley 62 is provided with a clutch part for engagement with a shiftable clutch part 64, splined to shaft 59 and provided with a shifting lever 65.

In the operation of the apparatus, as sup ports 37 arrive at a point 0 posite platform 30, the sprocket wheels 39 0 their holders 32 engage chains and simultaneously with such engagement, the operator shifts clutch 85 part 61 to stop the conveyer. Door 51 is now 0 ned and the bottles in rows are fed down p tform section 31, top foremost into the seats 35, which latter are presented successively through the rotation of the holders by 40 chains 40. During this feeding operation a holder contai 0 treated bottles will be opposite delive c ute 20 and the door 54 or that holder will be opened so that the bottles can slide by gravity therefrom as the several seats 35 are brought into registration the discharge opening 53. In this connectlon it will be noted that I prefer to operate'chains 40 in a direction opposite to that of the travel of conveyer 4 by which I am enabled to obtain a comparatively slow movement of the holders during the feeding and delivery By providing the seats 35 which radiate from hub 36 of a holder, and opera such 85 holder in the manner d the ttles are moved end over end during their travel on the conveyer. By the end over end movement the contents of a bottle are caused to flow back and forth, traveling well up into the neck, thereby of a more thprough treatment of the contents and .dangerofbthrou hunequal expansion or contraction of the ttle. In the drawings I have shown the chains 68 40 arranged out of the path of the conveyer at the lower portions of tanks 7, 8 and 9. These chains however, can obviously be otherwise provided or arranged without dc parting irom the spirit of my invention with respect to the agitation of the products to be treated during their travel in the several tanks. Further I desire it understood that the term bottle as herein employed is intended to cover any form of receptacle suitable for holding the products to be treated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Iatent of the United States of America, 1s:-

1. In a pasteurizing apparatus, a pasteuro izing chamber, a conveyer suppo for movement through said chamber, a recep' tacle holder rotatably mounted on said conveyer, means for operating said conveyer, means for stopping said conveyer, and means for rotating said receptacle holder during the intermissions of operation of said conveyer.

2. In a pasteuriziug apparatus, a asteurizing c amber a conveyer exten g through said chamber, means for operating said conveyor, a receptacle holder mounted on said conveyer for relative movement, means for terminating the movement of said conveyer, and means for operati said receptacle holder during the pauses 0 said conveyer.

3. In a pasteurizing apparatus, a pasteurizing chamber, a conveyor for conveying receptacles to be pasteurized, means for opemtmg said conveyer intermittently, a re ceptacle holder rotatably mounted on said conveyer, said holder being provided with a receptacle seat having its axis extending radially to the axis of the holder, and means for rotating said holder during the pauses of said conveyor.

4. In pasteurizing apparatus, a conveyer, means for operating said conveyer intermittently, a receptacle holder mounted on said conveyer for relative movement, and means for operating said receptacle holder during the pauses of mid conveyer.

5. In a pasteurizing apparatus, a pasteurmng chamber, a eonveyer for conveying receptacles through said chamber, a receptacle holder, a cylindrical support mounted on said conveyer provided with an opening, a door for the o v of said support, said receptacle holder being rotatably mounted 1n said support and provided with a receptacle seat arranged to register with the openmg thereof, and means for rotating said ho(l;dej1:.'1.1

apasteurizingap ratus,a asteurizmg chamber, a oonveyer ior convey ing receptacles through said chamber, a receptacle holder, a cylindrical support mounted on said conveyer provided with spaced open mgs, doors for the openings of said support, 130

said receptacle holder being rotatably mounted in said support and provided with receptacle seats arranged to alternately register with the seats of said holder, and means for rotating said holder.

7. In a pasteurizin'g apparatus, a pasteurizing chamber, an endless conveyer having a portion of its length arranged in said chamber, means for operating said conveyer intermittently, a receptacle holder rotatably mounted onsaid conveyer, and driven means extending along the path of said conveyer for rotating said holder during pauses of said conveyer.

8. In a pasteurizing apparatus, a pasteurizing chamber, an endless conveyer having a portion of its length arranged in said chamber, means for operating said conveyer intermittently, a receptacle holder rot-atably mounted on said conveyer and provided with a sprocket Wheel, a sprocket chain supported along the path of said conveyer for rotating said holder during pauses of said conveyer, and means for driving said sprocket chain.

9. In a pasteiirizing apparatus, a pasteurizing chamber, a conveyer extending through said chamber, a plurality of receptacle holders mounted on said conveyer for relative movement, means for operating said conveyer intermittently, and means for rotating said holders during pauses of said conveyer.

10. In a pasteurizing apparatus, a pasteurizing chamber, a conveyer for conveying receptacles in said chamber, a receptacle holder, a hollow sup-port mounted on said conveyer and provided with an opening, said receptacle holder being rotatably mounted in said support and provided with a receptacle seat arranged to communicate with the opening thereof, and means for rotating said holder.

11. In a pasteurizing apparatus, a pasteurizin chamber, a conve er for conveying receptac es in said cham er, a receptacle holder rotatably mounted on said conveyer and provided with a radial seat extending to its periphery, the inner end portion of said seat being contracted for engagement with the neck of the bottle, and means for rotating said holder.

12. In a pasteurizing apparatus, a pas teurizing chamber, a conveyer for conveying receptacles in said chamber, a receptacle holder rotatably mounted on said conveyer and'provided with a radial seat extending to its periphery, said holder havin a hollow hub opening into its said seat an adapted to receive a portion of a receptacle mounted in the latter, and means for rotating said holder.

13. In a pasteurizing apparatus, a pasteurizing chamber, a conveyer for conveying receptacles in said chamber, a receptacle holder rotatably mounted on said conveyer and provided with a radial seat extending to its periphery, said holder having a hollow hub opening into its said seat, a support of open form mounted on said conveyer and inclosing said holder, and means for imparting rotary movement to said holder.

14. In a pasteurizing apparatus, a pas-' teurizing chamber, a conveyer for conveying receptacles in said chamber, a receptacle holder rotatably mounted on said conveyer, said holder including a hollow hub and having a receptacle seat extending inwardly into communication with said hub, the receptacle seat of said holder consisting of spaced side walls having inwardly converging inner end portions, and means for moving said holder on said conveyer for effecting an end over end movement of the carried receptacles.

Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 10th day of February, 1912.

. JACOB H. BECKMAN.

Witnesses: 1

VICTOR TAY, OsoAR KRAUsE. 

